Comic+Book

I found some references to using adult comic books for 1) fish advisories and 2) marine conservation.

http://fieldmuseum.org/ecco-publishes-comic-book-fishing-and-environment You can download this comic book from the Chicago Field Museum (here's the link: http://fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/FishTalesm.pdf). This little comic is packed with information.
 * 1) ECCO PUBLISHES COMIC BOOK ON FISHING AND ENVIRONMENT **

2) Studies showed that fishermen in Mexico enjoyed reading comic books, so several projects used that media to stop overfishing of sea turtles:

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 * Mexican fishing villages work to change practices to preserve loggerhead turtles **
 * University of California - Santa Cruz **

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 * Grad student works to save sea turtles through research and education **

http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/international_conservation/mexico_program/ Six of the world’s seven species of sea turtles use Mexico’s beaches for nesting and they are all in jeopardy. Defenders is working in a number of ways to protect them. A bus-stop ad campaign against the trade and consumption of sea turtles featured prominent soccer stars as spokespeople. Defenders continues to host our award-winning weekly radio show, Supervivencia (“Survival”), which spotlights the plight of these endangered reptiles among many other environmental issues. A five edition series of comic books on the human health risks of eating sea turtle meat was distributed throughout Mexico and Latin America (45,000 copies). Our turtle species identification guides also have been widely distributed. Defenders has conducted numerous sea turtle conservation workshops under grants or contracts with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, and others. These are hands-on gatherings with fishers, officials, and outside experts, conducted all along the Mexican coast, to demonstrate how to prevent fishers from catching sea turtles and how to free them unharmed if they do. We also distributed thousands of turtle-safe hooks, special hook removal tools, and vast quantities of other educational materials at these workshops.
 * Defenders of Life**
 * Sea Turtle Conservation **

'Til next time!

Marian

In pursuing my idea of a some kind of graphic novel on lead poisoning I started googling social action and graphic novel and have hit on soem great resources. This YouTube video by Ivan Brunnetti is great and sums it up about art rasing people's empathy which is what so much of what our discussion has focused on: []

From a teaching perspective here's another great link:

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Thanks, Marian, for helping get me started... REGHAN